Los Angeles – Oprah Winfrey speaks with New York Times bestselling author, MSNBC host and transgender advocate Janet Mock about her powerful spiritual journey, the importance of speaking your truth and becoming the person you know you were always meant to be in the season finale of Super Soul Sunday this Sunday, May 3 at…
Selma, the film about Martin Luther King and the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, is an extraordinary film: wrenching, inspiring and impeccably made. As a depiction of one of the most important events of the Civil Rights Movement, it is also more socially and politically relevant to our contemporary world than any feature film…
Jan. 4, 2015 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Oprah Prime on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. and the Selma marches 50 years later. Oprah sits down with acclaimed actor David Oyelowo, star of the upcoming feature film Selma, along with the film’s award-winning director Ava DuVernay, for a conversation…
LOS ANGELES – Oprah Winfrey speaks exclusively with Michael Sam in his first television interview since being cut from the NFL on a special episode of Oprah Prime airing Saturday, Dec. 27 at 10:30-11:30 p.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The interview follows the 90-minute documentary that follows the life of Michael Sam, who…
LOS ANGELES – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will air the exclusive documentary, “Michael Sam,” Saturday, Dec. 27 (9-10:30 p.m. ET/PT). The 90-minute documentary follows the life of Michael Sam, who made history when he became the first openly gay football player drafted into the NFL. The documentary was originally announced as a multi-part series but…
Two members of the LGBT community have posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom at this year’s ceremony at the White House. Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and pioneering astronaut Sally Ride were honored at the White House ceremony Nov. 20. Their surviving partners – Walter Naegle and Tam O’Shaughnessy, respectively – accepted the awards….
LOS ANGELES – The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) will present a special night of programming focusing on the conversation around being gay in America Sunday, Oct. 27. Oprah’s Next Chapter leads off the night (9-10 p.m. ET/PT) and will feature an in-depth conversation with Oprah and popular gay celebrities including comedienne Wanda Sykes, Modern Family…
Lee Daniels’ The Butler One of the problems with starting a movie with the words “Inspired by a true story” written on the screen is that most people will focus on “true story” and not on “inspired by.” That phrase opens Lee Daniels’ The Butler – which I will refer to as The Butler from…
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has honored Ellen DeGeneres by giving the out television personality a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The ceremony happened 11:30 a.m. PST today in Hollywood. Hollywood LAist reported that American Idol host Ryan Seacrest and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel both spoke at the ceremony, which comes just…
Despite being voted off Dancing with Stars, Chaz Bono will be back on TV screens next month in another documentary. The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) recently announced that Bono will be the subject of another documentary, Being Chaz, which will examine Bono’s life after his transition. Bono was previously the subject of an OWN documentary…
